My treasured comrade Farran Smith Nehme, who has more contacts than your average KGB agent, informed me last night that Leo McCarey’s “My Son John” (1952) has turned up for streaming to Netflix members.

We don’t think it’s a coincidence that this happened just 10 months after we programmed this notorious anti-Communist melodrama with Robert Walker and Helen Hayes — which has never been available on video in any form — for its first TV showing in nearly 40 years as part of our TCM series “Shadows of Russia.”

This fascinating film is not only a psychologically acute window into family dynamics in the McCarthy Era, but contains Walker’s final performance. He died before “My Son John” completed principal photography, and the film was finished using doubles and repurposed footage, including his final scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train.”

Paramount has also licensed William Dieterle’s “The Turning Point,” a solid newspaper noir with William Holden that I don’t believe has ever surfaced except for a single late ’70s showing on the MSG Network, back when Madison Square Garden and Paramount were both owned by Gulf + Western.

If anyone finds other classic titles that are being streamed there, please let me know. Jeff Wells reports Netflix Instant has quietly premiered Michael Mann’s World War II horror movie “The Keep” — one of the worst big-budget studio film I’ve ever reviewed, and never available even on VHS.

That’s not the only big Netflix news for classic film lovers, though!

Responding to tweet from someone who discovered “Any Wednesay” with Jane Fonda streaming there, the Warner Archive Collection tweeted in response: “Quite a few WAC films are turning up on Netflix Instant. Trying to get a list together.”

I haven’t been able to find any other WAC titles there yet, but if you do let me know. Hopefully they will eventually include the four WAC titles that we programmed for TCM: my beloved “Mission to Moscow,” as well as “Rasputin and the Empress,” “I Was a Communist for the FBI” and “Conspirator.”

The czarina of classic film bloggers recalls the genesis of “Shadows of Russia” yet again — I know I get asked this one a lot — during a fabulous interview with Victor Ozols at Black Book where she also offers tips on getting younger people to watch black-and-white movies. The photo of Farran is pretty special, too.